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Knights with Wings

Item number (ISN):

208857

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1941/1942

Item number (ISN):

208857

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

MACCORMACK, Gordon

Accession:

1977-0303

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1941/1942

Production company:

Gordon MacCormack (Producer)

Production credit:

director/producer, Gordon MacCormack; scenario/continuity, Kingsley Brown; photography (flying sequences), Paul David; Mackenzie Hume; Russ Chambers; Louis Cochand; Russ Cowans; Philippe Bernier; Sydney Dyke; Jerry Tenhope; photography (ground sequences), Tom Wrathal; Allay Byers; Kingsley Brown; Charles Farbell; Jack Garner; Bill Finnie; Edward Murhige; Gordon Rankin; sound, Vona Davies; Tom King; Robert Chambers; Norman Davis; narrator, Geoffrey Turpin

Description:

Documentary covering the British Commonwealth Air Plan training activities at Windsor Mills, Quebec during the summer and winter of 1941/1942. Activites at #4 EFTS such as snow removal procedures, flight operations (including a first solo), handling and packing parachutes, stunting and flying routines are covered in detail. The early aircraft used in the Commonwealth Air Training Plan are featured. Aircraft such as the Fleet Finch, Westland Lysanders, Noorduyn Norsemen, and Avro Ansons are shown as are some of the other transport aircraft used to ferry passengers during the formative days of the BCATP. <32mn 43s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Subject description from Bill Galloway's notes.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8307-0056
V1 8304-0003
V1 2004-09-0046

Donor restrictions:

Use requires credit by given to Gordon MacCormack.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Gordon MacCormack.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with credit to Gordon MacCormack

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